EKPOMA Volume 2 Number 1 2014

A PSYCHO-SOCIO PERSPECTIVE ON ADOLESCENCE

Ilu O.C. Adomeh
Abstract

A careful; study; of; man; will ;reveal; that; he; is; a; very inquisitive being. Among the things he sets out to understand is his own self. From the armchair rationalization of the Ancient Greek philosophers,; namely,; Socrates,; Plato; and; Aristotle, through; modern; and; Christian; thinkers; and; anthropologists down to contemporary; psychologists; and; sociologists,; one conclusion can be drawn about man. That conclusion is, “man is 1an enigma”. This view of man was not arrived at through an escape route; rather it was after a longitudinal study of man as a possible possibility and /or an impossible possibility. Depending on one's experience of man as a unique; being He can be conceived; of; as; a; being; that; is; great; or; small,; creative; or destructive, rational or irrational, loving or cruel; at times, he may; be; obedient,; and; at ;other; times; stubborn From the foregoing, man himself has no option but to conclude that he is one of the wonders of the world.

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